Amid the chaos and horror of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force, daughter of a smug unbeliever, enters a Carmelite convent. Blanche is so timorous that she seems unsuited to the rigors of religious life even at the best of times - and horribly misplaced as the Reign of Terror begins to stain France with the blood of a new generation of Christian martyrs. 
Sister Marie, one of the leading nuns in the convent, receives with joy the death threats of a ham-handed revolutionary: the sisters are going to be awarded the crown of Christian martyrdom! Sister Marie prepares the other nuns for this fearsome sacrifice, all the while harboring doubts about Blanche's ability and willingness to join them in giving up their lives for Christ. 
Blanche's life thereafter and the story of the nuns take more than one unexpected twist, leaving you not only with the inspiring, true example of their martyrdom, but also with a penetrating insight into the nature of holiness. The spiritual acuity and deep compassion of author Gertrud von Le Fort make The Song at the Scaffold a unique meditation - as well as a powerfully moving novel, written with unusual dramatic force. It will make your soul surge with renewed and fervent love for God!

The Song at the Scaffold: A Novel of Horror and Holiness in the Reign of Terror

Literature & Fiction

Le Fort, Gertrud Von

Literary

Sophia Inst Pr

Told in the style and manner of a medieval chronicle, The Pope from the Ghetto presents the legendary history of the family of Pier Leone, the Jewish financiers of the popes over the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Intimately detailing the life of the ghetto, dispersing copious allusions to Hebrew scripture and ritual, and evoking the spirit of Messianic expectancy, Le Fort produces an impartial, realistic observation of Pier Leone’s conversion to Catholicism and its tragic consequences of persecution and schism. Regarded as “a piece of historical fiction of outstanding importance,” The Pope from the Ghetto first appeared in print as the virulent anti-Semitic sentiment of Nazism was ascendant in Germany. For Le Fort, the novel represents a Christian retort to that evil—a recall to the promise made to Abraham and a reminder that “St. Peter too was a son of Israel.”

The Pope from the Ghetto

Genre Fiction

Cluny Media

Die Letzte Am Schafott

Die letzte am Schafott

Kehl, Petra Verlag

Himnos a la Iglesia (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Ediciones Encuentro, S.A.

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